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According to Wikipedia , Kimberly W. Benston is an American literary historian and academic administrator. Benston earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree from Yale University. He taught at his alma mater and Princeton University before joining the Haverford College faculty in 1984. Benston was appointed Francis B. Gummere Professor of English in 2002 and served as provost between 2012 and 2015. He was named president of Haverford College later that year and took office on July 1, 2015. Benston stepped down from the presidency and returned to teaching in 2019.
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1980 1990 2000 2010 0 12.5 25 37.5 50 62.5 75 87.5 100 112.5 Published Works The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (2014) Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison@@@New Essays on "Invisible Man"@@@Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (1990) Amiri Baraka: An Interview (1978) Facing Tradition: Revisionary Scenes in African American Literature (1990) Baraka : the renegade and the mask (1977) Experimenting at the Threshold: Sacrifice, Anthropomorphism, and the Aims of (Critical) Animal Studies (2009) Late Coltrane: A Re-membering of Orpheus (1977) (10)"I Yam what I Am": Naming and Unnaming in Afro-American Literature (1982) “I Yam What I Am”: Naming and Unnaming in Afro-American Literature (2018) Performing blackness: re/placing Afro-American poetry (1989) (8)Architectural Imagery and Unity in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (1975) Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) : a collection of critical essays (1978) (7)Introduction: Being There: Performance as Mise-en-Scène, Abscene, Obscene, and Other Scene (1992) Controlling the Dialectical Deacon: The Critique of Historicism in Invisible Man (1987) (5)I yam what I am: the topos of un (naming) in Afro-American literature (2016) "The Aesthetic of Modern Black Drama: From Mimesis to Methexis." (1980) (5)Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask (1977) Sterling Brown's After-Song: "When de Saints Go Ma'Ching Home" and the Performances of Afro-American Voice (1982) Reweaving the 'Ulysses scene': enchantment, post-Oedipal identity, and the buried text of blackness in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1991) (3)Tragic Aspects of the Blues (1975) The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature (3rd ed.) (2014) (3)Beauty's just applause: dramatic form and the Tamburlanian sublime (1986) (3)The veil of black: (Un)Masking the subject of African-American modernism's “Native son” (1993) Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung (2009) (3)The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature Third Edition (2014) (2)"I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud": Can We Know the Dancer fro the Dance? (1980) (2)Cities in Bezique : Adrienne Kennedy's Expressionistic Vision (1976) (2)Locating Adrienne Kennedy: prefacing the subject (1992) (2)Ellison, Baraka, and the Faces of Tradition (1978) Baraka: A Collection of Critical Essays (1978) (1)Black dada nihilismus: Phillis Wheatley, Malcolm X, and the traumatic politics of conversion (2001) (1)Beyond the Circle: Challenges and Opportunities for the Contemporary Liberal Arts Teacher-Scholar (2005) (1)Harper and Trane: Modal Enactments of A Love Supreme (2016) (0)Giving Time Gives You Time 1 RUNNING HEAD : Giving Time Gives You Time Giving Time Gives You Time Cassie Mogilner (2012) (0)Traces of the other scene: the photography of David Miller (1990) The Unbearable Learness of Being; Or, ‘Why Should a Dog, a Rat, a Horse Have Life, and Thou No Breath At All?' (2007) (0)The Duchess of Malfi : Webster's Tragic Vision (1975) (0)Larry Neal : A Special Issue (1985) (0)Listen Bre'er Sterling: the critic as liar (1998) (0)Memory, Mourning and Revision: William Earle Williams's Gettysburg--A Journey in Time (2003) (0)Dutchman as 'Political Theater (2002) (0)Framing Photographs: Contexts and Transpositions (2007) (0)Thinking Precisely on the Event: (Dis)locating ""Politics"" in Shakespeare (2007) (0)Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask.@@@Chester Himes: A Critical Appraisal. (1977) Preface to a Twenty Volume Critical Note: For Amiri, Ghost of the Future (2014) and the Aims of (Critical) Animal Studies (2016) (0)Prologue: Performing Blackness (2005) Lionel Trilling's Criticism of Life (1976) (0)Listen Br'er Sterling: The Critic as Liar [A Pre(r)amble to Essays on Sterling Brown] (1998) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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